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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Formicinae » Formicini » Wood ants, mound ants, & field ants (Formica) » fusca group (Formica fusca group) » Formica moki
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Ant - Formica moki
Copyright © 2008 Peter Bryant

Ant - Formica moki
Santa Cruz Island, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
February 19, 2008
Size: 5mm
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Contributed by Peter Bryant on 20 February, 2008 - 12:44pm
Last updated 10 February, 2010 - 7:46pm

Moved
Moved from fusca group.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 February, 2010 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

Formica sp. (fusca group) - worker
Example of an extensively reddish species of this group.
Several of them are widespread in CA, but maybe less so on this island off the Southern part of the "Golden State". This one is strikingly similar, and obviously related, to palaearctic F. rufibarbis.
I would lean for Formica moki, but confirmation by a North-American expert is needed.
… Richard Vernier, 20 February, 2008 - 2:07pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree with Richard, it is
I agree with Richard, it is F. moki as it is only one of 2 spoecies of Formica known from the island. The other being Formica lasioides.
… Gordon C. Snelling, 21 February, 2008 - 5:44am login or register to post comments

 
Formica
Thanks!
… Peter Bryant, 21 February, 2008 - 8:10am login or register to post comments

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